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I'd say around half of our set either has little or no guitar on the original recordings and I'm happier that way.
Figuring out chord voicings to replicate multiple synth parts on an Avicii song is way more interesting to me than slogging through endless solos on Sultans of Swing.
When a guitar trio comes in behind a big-voiced singer on the intro to Bad Romance nobody in the room gives a damn that we don't have keyboards, which is why although I'm not particularly snobbish about the idea, I really have no use for the hassle of backing tracks.
If you have strong dynamics giving you tension and release in the right places it barely matters what instruments you play your combination or sequence of twelve notes on.
- crazy volume
- backing tracks
A previous singer we had used to have was previously in a 3 piece Abba tribute with a bass player and guitarist with backing tracks and I thought that was a one-way ticket to naff city.I could never be in a band using canned drums / brass etc. I just wouldn't enjoy playing with a click track like that...
However, the support act was a disaster area. An Australian band, which consisted of a singer (who played guitar some of the time), main guitarist, bass guitarist (who did some backing vocals), and a keyboard player. All male, apart from the keyboard player being female. She mainly smiled and only played the keys part of the time. The "drummer" was a backing track, and straightforward enough as they were playing music best described as pop. The problems were - bass guitar much too loud, singer frequently out of tune, and uninspiring songs. It felt odd that they didn't have a real person as a drummer, and yet had a keyboard player who contributed very little.
It's good if you use it to enhance your live set, not replace anything there as I find its a bit too weird. But I've known of bands who don't use a live bass player or keyboardist and find it quicker and easier to just use a backing track. I think for singing and drums it should be fully live as those are the two instruments people pay the most attention to.
This applies to a lot of things - backing tracks, fuzz pedals, widdly solos, yellow zig zag boxes on roads, etc etc
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In our trio, I use a Boss SY-1 to sustain organ chords and synth pads live from my guitar. I also chain it into a Mel9 to effectively give me a sustain pedal that sounds like a string section. I can actually do Final Countdown by holding synth chords in between each part of the riff.
Having said this, I have a couple of dep gigs coming up where I'm doing lead vocal and guitar for a band that uses tracks. It'll be interesting to experience it first hand.
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Then the woman in front of me watched the entity of Billy's set via her mobile phone and I hated her.
Billy had a full band but ampless guitars which sounded shit. I now hate modelling set ups.
But Billy himself was great
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If its ok for the bands we love like, Prodigy, Enter Shikari, Biffy Clyro to use them then why cant we?
We personally feel that putting on a good show and having fun, enjoying what were doing is more important that the purist ego.
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?